Thanks. I figured that I should somehow let the author know about the problem (after determining that it is a legitimate problem). Thanks for the tip about (not) submitting a bug report.
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I *do* suggest filling out a bug report, especially if you decide not to do anything else; but patches or a detailed "here's what I had to do to fix the problem" report is going to be thousands of times more likely to be utilized to fix the problem than just a bug report.